20 movies like Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, ordered by similarity : #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Shoah(1985), The Sorrow and the Pity(1969), The Fog of War(2003), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport(2000), The Rape of Europa(2006), Shadow World(2016), My Enemy's Enemy(2007), The Nazis Strike(1943), Desert Victory(1943), Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz(2018), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018) ...
Documentary
1987
268 Minutes
nazi war criminal military officer klaus barbie chilling disturbing lyon, france argentina bolivia germany world war ii genocide politics communism nazism wretched excess pursuit 1980s
Eyewitness interviews and archival footage highlight Marcel Ophuls' account of the Nazi "Butcher of Lyon.".
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
anne frank jew nazi nazi collaborator holocaust survivor bleak chilling dark disheartening disturbing emotional engaging gripping incredible melancholy moving amsterdam concentration camp hideout holocaust
It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
France|UK
1985
561 Minutes
Simon Srebnik Michael Podchlebnik Richard Glazar Rudolf Vrba Inge Deutschkron Filip Müller
victim survivor nazi bystander guard brooding shocking disturbing auschwitz germany ghetto poland holocaust nazism horrors of war concentration camp fall discovery 1980s
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Documentary
Italy|West Germany
1969
260 Minutes
military officer politician celebrity soldier civilian dark disturbing shocking clermont-ferrand, france france horrors of war nazism disillusionment world war ii discovery 1940s
Seven mercenaries on a mission into Simba controlled Congo territory requisite with typical sterotypes.
Documentary
USA
2003
105 Minutes
secretary of defense president viet cong soldiers gen. william westmoreland vietnam vet chilling patriotic somber emotional vietnam washington, d.c. pentagon military base vietnam war politics communism government controversy war
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
Documentary
UK|USA
2000
122 Minutes
Alexander Gordon
jew child german czech foster child british man bleak chilling england foster home germany czechoslovakia austria world war ii refugees adoption nazis kindertransport holocaust escape
The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.
Documentary
USA
2006
117 Minutes
Richard Berge
nazi art expert soldier historian shocking moving museum germany europe art nazism adolf hitler world war ii theft discovery quest rescue 20th century
The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
Documentary
Belgium|Denmark
2016
94 Minutes
politician sheik president prime minister rebel terrorist brooding gripping chilling white house middle east palace london military base office war arms syndicate terrorism guilt wealth
Based on the book of The Shadow World, this feature length documentary is an investigation into the multi-billion dollar international arms trade.
Documentary
France|UK
2007
87 Minutes
klaus barbie nazi murderer agent chilling france third reich death cia pursuit
A look at the history of one-time Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, infamously known as "The Butcher of Lyon." This documentary's main focus will be on Barbie's post-war activities, in which ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
1943
44 Minutes
adolf hitler soldier winston churchill civilian intense gripping patriotic germany poland england france world war ii nazism invasion world domination propaganda discovery rise wretched excess 1930s
The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
Documentary
UK
1943
60 Minutes
general marshal nazi winston churchill field marshal erwin rommel hitler fascinating chilling shocking gripping intense patriotic egypt propaganda world war ii footage nazism battle documentaries discovery
The Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including a re-enactment.
Documentary
Canada
2018
83 Minutes
Alan Dershowitz Benjamin Ferencz General Wesley Clark David Scheffer
prosecutor nazi engaging fascinating court biography trial nazis documentaries fight for justice pursuit 20th century
A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Documentary
Germany|UK
2005
107 Minutes
adolf hitler nazi german soldier wife child intellectual fascinating brooding chilling sad bavaria germany joseph goebbels mental illness depression suicide propaganda world war ii rise fall
Through archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.
Documentary
USA
2002
72 Minutes
child parent activist soldier survivor sad inspiring germany eastern europe foster home holocaust nazism protection surrogacy family world war ii wretched excess growing up escape 2000s
Through interviews we meet some of the people who risked their lives to hide Jewish children during World War II and how this experience has continued to affect the survivors.
Documentary
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Jowita Budnik Piotr Glowacki Piotr Jankowski Wojciech Zielinski Karolina Gruszka
nazi jew journalist scholar historian brooding brutal gripping emotional fascinating warsaw ghetto journalism historical events nazi occupation nazis propaganda quest adventure discovery rivalry
Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, ... See full summary »
Documentary
2002
90 Minutes
Othmar Schmiderer Traudl Junge
secretary artist solemn chilling munich adolf hitler nazism firsthand historical account third reich world war ii regret wretched excess discovery 2000s
Filmmakers André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer interview Traudl Junge, a secretary to Adolf Hitler in 1942.
Drama
USA
1961
186 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Burt Lancaster Richard Widmark Marlene Dietrich Maximilian Schell Judy Garland Montgomery Clift William Shatner Ed Binns Kenneth MacKenna Werner Klemperer
judge defendant lawyer military officer nazi widow dark disturbing courtroom nuremberg, germany world war ii nazism genocide court battles quest wretched excess 1940s
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
Documentary
2007
105 Minutes
engineer war criminal nazi holocaust survivor friend inspiring incredible uplifting germany austria united states holocaust world war ii anti-semitism family investigation quest revenge discovery 20th century
Documentary, War
UK|USA
1945
85 Minutes
Dwight D. Eisenhower
dwight d. eisenhower soldier nazi historian confident fiery patriotic inspiring europe united states world war ii nazism allied forces victory historical events rivalry rise 1940s
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly one thousand four hundred cameramen. It opens as the assembled Allied ... See full summary »
Documentary, War, Crime, Drama
2007
106 Minutes
Brian Keith Allen Jack Cloonan Greg D'Agostino Carl Levin Moazzam Begg
taxi driver soldier narrator detainee chilling intense brutal powerful army base bagram air force base afghanistan guatemala torture politics civil rights government secrets war mystery discovery 2000s